And here we all are building back better on the Fediverse/Threadiverse!

Kayaking past my house last Sunday. Water is up past the door handle.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50821837

No one had ever been this desperate to sell me a horn before.

5 minute video of the interaction:

I was in VRChat and we were talking about autism and I don’t remember how exactly it happened but I ended up calling my dad in VR and asking him if the reason I got taken for “physical therapy” at school for several years after I learned to write (originally it was because I’m left handed but didn’t have enough muscles and motor control to write well) and my dad confirmed that it was to help me develop and I never realized. They had an inside swing, a big ol weighted blanket, a bean bag, putty of different thicknesses to strengthen hand muscles, fidget toys, and the “teacher” had a cool little glass sphere on her desk that had live coral in it. She said there used to be a shrimp but it died. tbh even as an adult I’d love to go back there and just mess around with all the different toys. I still have one she gave me at the end of the school year.

Source: https://www.litterboxcomics.com/lore-dump/

“Florida Congressman Randy Fine was going door to door looking for votes … and somehow ended up rifling through a voter’s mail,” TMZ reported Tuesday.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to stand trial for assault and falsely reporting a crime in the wounding of a man during the agency’s crackdown in Minneapolis.

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/34703104

EDIT: Oops, didn’t realize this was AI when I posted it! Sorry about that!

Cat and Girl | Mastodon

Since the signature is hard to read, this is Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

also here’s my baby

If this was Clinton it would be everywhere. Trump has a very chummy assistant and he attacks viciously, doesn’t defend or deflect. He obviously feels strongly and is vulnerable. Why the lack of interest?

For south west BC that means warmer than normal winters. This place (and the weather channel) is predicting subzero temperatures from October to December. Even in December sub zero is pretty rare around here.

*Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza*

*Twenty-nine US states are seeking huge damages, claiming Meta’s platforms were addictive by design*

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August 17, 2026

In 2020, a record number of people across the United States took to the streets in the movement for Black lives, demanding justice for George Floyd and victims of police violence. Last week, two of the country’s most popular progressives — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — threw this historic movement under the bus.

https://github.com/benbusby/farside

Original source

Existing anonymity networks rely on routing tables, creating a structural vulnerability where metadata maps identity to destination. Under active global cyber warfare, traditional incremental architectures act as surveillance sinks.

Yeah… Trump approved of this shit. Because of course he did!

Researchers have figured out how make shaped drone rotors that convert audible and ultrasound frequencies into stable mechanical spinning motion, leading to tiny drones that can be completely silent. While scary-sounding (no pun intended) it’s unclear how usable these would be in the real world, since a line-of-sight source of sound waves has to be provided.

… If approved, advocates say the move could soften the immediate impact on customer’s electricity prices. However, critics point out that it would leave households to pay for Dominion Energy’s fuel costs long after the price spike has faded

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https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/147808826

The far-reaching order does not include a moratorium on data center development. However, it requires local approvals to receive state permits, which in effect may block many from moving forward.

Six years after the spread of COVID-19 caught the world by surprise, the Polytechnique lab is spearheading efforts to prepare Canada against future pandemics.

Something doesn’t smell right about this alleged post-election mobilitzation in Russia.